Critics zeroed in on a Times headline that previously read “Wisconsin Republicans Defiantly ‘Stand Like Bedrock’ in Face of Democratic Wins.”

“I cherish ⁦@nytimes⁩. But this is a truly indefensible headline,” said former United States U.N. ambassador Samantha Power in a tweet on Wednesday, with her Obama administration colleague Ben Rhodes suggesting that the headline was a result of the paper’s “fear” of being called biased.

A rep for the Times did not immediately respond to request for comment from TheWrap, but the criticism from Power and Rhodes was typical of many on the liberal side of the Twitter aisle.

“Your Wisconsin coverage, and particularly its headlines, just keeps getting worse @nytimes. Can someone make them stop,” said The Nation writer Joan Walsh. “Not sure they could have written a better headline for themselves if they had been asked to,” quipped Atlantic writer Adam Serwer.

Amid this growing chorus, the Times moved to change its headline to what it now reads, “Wisconsin Republicans Defiantly Move to Limit the Power of Incoming Democrats.”

A timeline of these changes — including an even earlier headline that existed before “Bedrock” controversy — are all viewable on Internet Archive’s Wayback machine here.

In the era of partisan media, the New York Times has taken pains to avoid bias, partisanship and conflicts of interest in their coverage. Last week, the paper changed this piece, swapping the term “illegal immigrant” to “undocumented immigrant” after similar criticism. The Times’ style guide over the issue reflects the tightrope the paper constantly.

9 Times New York Times Editorial Made Everyone Freak Out

Bari Weiss: We're All Fascists Now

The New York Times opinion editor set the Internet ablaze after going after college students who she said were trying to shut down free speech. Critics pointed to Weiss mistakenly linking two fake ANTIFA Twitter accounts

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David Brooks: 'Girl I Want Your Body'

New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks offered his spin on the MeToo movement in November. But his attempt to speak the language of sex and passion led him to write some lines like "girl I want your body" and "sex is a gold nugget" and the Internet went nuts.

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Bret Stephens' "A Defense, of Sorts, for Harvey Weinstein"

The October, 2017 piece was actually titled "Weinstein and Our Culture of Enablers," but Stephens couldn't resist throwing in the trollish alternative headline see above into a tweeted description of the article -- which promptly precipitated an Internet meltdown

David Brooks set passions aflame after urging "respect" for gun owners after 17 children were killed at a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. "So if you want to stop school shootings it's not enough just to vent and march. It's necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points," he wrote.

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Quinn "Been Friends with Various Neo-Nazis" Norton

The New York Times got more than they bargained for when they hired tech writer Quinn Norton. Almost immediately after the news was announced old tweets began to emerge including where Norton said she had "been friends with various neo-nazis" and used the N word. The Times cut her loose just hours after she was hired.

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Bari Weiss Attacks Aziz Ansari Accuser: 'I'll Get Crushed for This'

Weiss risked more wrath on the set of "Morning Joe" in January after blasting a woman who accused comedian Aziz Ansari of sexual misconduct. "It's called bad sex," she told Joe and Mika. "I'll get crushed for saying this."

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Bari Weiss Quotes Hamilton: 'Immigrants: We Get the Job Done"

Anti-Weiss Internet mobs were set ablaze after she tweeted out "Immigrants: we get the job done," in response to Olympian Mirai Nagasu's triple axel. Nagasu was born in California to immigrant parents and Twitter furiously dragged her for not paying sufficient deference to the decision.

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James Bennet Diversifies the Times Opinion Pages

Editorial Page Editor James Bennet has said his mission is to broaden editorial diversity on the Times newsroom. The initiative has often been rocky and the paper has been beset by online criticism of hiring choices, and targeted leaks by Times employees unhappy with his changes.

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David Brooks Sandwich-Shames Less Educated Friend

Perhaps most egregious of all in the mind of Internet warriors was Brooks' confession in a July, 2017 column that he once took a friend "with only a high school degree" into a gourmet sandwich shop but decided to pull a quick switch for Mexican food after, so he said, she appeared overwhelmed by words like Soppressata and Capicollo.

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Most of the recent fire and fury comes from the paper’s editorial pages

Bari Weiss: We're All Fascists Now

The New York Times opinion editor set the Internet ablaze after going after college students who she said were trying to shut down free speech. Critics pointed to Weiss mistakenly linking two fake ANTIFA Twitter accounts